Babesiosis & Fever
By Linda on Aug 23, 2011 in Infections
Linda’s comments: Babesiosis as a cause of Fever in patients undergoing a splenectomy. After reading this article I find it amazing that Wormser would admit there is such thing as Babesiosis…Could he mean a co-infection of Lyme….
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Excerpt:
Babesiosis is an emerging infection most commonly acquired from a tick
bite. We describe three hospitalized patients with fever attributable to
babesiosis after a splenectomy. Splenectomy was done because of splenic
enlargement due to unsuspected babesia infection in one patient and
because of splenic perforation due to babesiosis in a second patient.
